Source: The Best of Me
“It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.”
“We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.”
Source: One Hundred Names
“Mistake is something that happens to everyone in life.”
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58354436-one-fourth-journey-of-rvalllplay?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=CHbCZWH9VO&rank=1
“It is worse than a crime, it is a mistake.”
C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute.
Reaction to the 1804 drumhead trial and execution of Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien, on orders of Napoleon. Actually said by either Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe, legislative deputy from Meurthe (according to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations) or Joseph Fouché, Napoleon's chief of police (according to John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), http://www.bartleby.com/100/758.1.html).
Misattributed
“Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.”
Reported in Alistair Cooke, Letter from America: 1946-2004 (2004), page 378.
“Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.”
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 10
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
Variant: Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.
